E,"
(Mercury is the messenger of the gods,)

which being divided between each side of a sign bearing the figure of
Mercury--a sign commonly used in the early part of the last century to
denote that post-horses were to be obtained--"der goden boode" became
freely translated into English, "the goat in boots." To Le Blon is
attributed the execution of this sign and its motto; but, whoever the
original artist may have been, and the intermediate retouchers or
repainters of the god, certain it is that the pencil of Morland, in
accordance with the desire of the landlord, either transformed the
petasus of Mercury into the horned head of a goat, his talaria into spurs
upon boots of huge dimensions, and his caduceus into a cutlass, or thus
decorated the original sign, thereby liquidating a score which he had run
up here, without any other means of payment than what his pencil
afforded. The sign, however, has been painted over, with considerable
additional embellishments from gold leaf, so that not the least trace of
Morland's work remains, except, perhaps, in the outline.

Park Walk (the road turning off at the Goat in Boots) proceeds to the
King's Road, and, although not in a direct line, to Battersea Bridge.
Opposite the Goat in Boots is Gilston Road, leading to Boltons and St.
Mary's Place. At No. 6, St. Mary's Place, resides J. O. Halliwell,
F.R.S., F.S.A., the well-known Shaksperian scholar, whose varied
contributions to literature have been crowned by the production of his
folio edition of Shakspere--a work still in progress. At No. 8, Mr.
Edward Wright, the popular actor, resided for a short time.

A few paces further on the main Fulham Road, at the north or opposite
side, stood "Manor House," now termed Manor Hall, and occupied by St.
Philip's Orphanage, a large, old-fashioned building, with the intervening
space between it and the road screened in by boards,--which were attached
to the antique iron gate and railings about twenty years ago, when it
became appropriated to a charitable asylum. Previously, Manor House had
been a ladies' boarding-school; and here Miss Bartolozzi, afterwards
Madame Vestris, was educated.

SEYMOUR PLACE, which leads to Seymour Terrace, is a cul-de-sac on the
same side of the main Fulham Road, between Manor Hall and the Somerset
Arms public-house, which last forms the west corner of Seymour Place.

At No. 1, Seymour Terrace expired, on the 19th of June, 1824, in her
twenty-fifth ye